Taipei Trip - Day 2

Ok, 15th July, 10:56pm

Went had breakfast in the hotel. Not an emorous spread, but enough
choices and the food was good. Unlike in china where the food tends to
be too salty and too oily, food in Taiwan is neither, more like the food
in sg... But even tastier =)

took the mrt n a bus to the national palace musuem after that, get off
at shilin stn and take red bus 30 to the last stop. Spent like a total
of 5 hours admiring the collections... Tickets are NT160 for adults btw.
Whole day ticket, you can go out, get in an unlimited no of times in
the day of ticket purchase. Have to leave our backpacks outside tho...
Free deposit service, and very friendly + helpful staff. Ate lunch at a
cafe there... We bought 2 sandwiches and a mango cheesecake which looked
more like a fruit pie... Price was okay, those + 2 drinks n coffes was
ard 30sgd. Considering the place I think the price was okay... And the
food was good! The sandwiches are uber nice! The cheese, the mayo, and
the ham... Very nice mix, and the ham was unlike anything I've tasted in
sg. The meat was very fragrant! Normally in a big mouthful of veggies,
tomato and bread the bland ham would be lost in the ocean, but not this.
Very fragrant taste of the meat-not saltiness, but fragrance. And the
sandwiches ain't small. One set composed of 3 and the other had 4 slices
of regular size square bread. The cake was nice too, looked very
exquisite and overall taste was good, just that I like cheese cakes with
a strong cheese taste like the one from ikea. The cake alone costs NT
80, less than 4 sgd. My mum or it as a set with coffee that costs ard
9sgd for both. The coffee came with a few gold flakes on top... Very
high class cafe eh? Which was why I said earlier that 30bucks total
ain't too ex...



Ok, the museum artifects... Large collection of porcelain items... Must
say beforehand that my family are uber fond of all these stuff... Diff
types of porcelains... My dad collected quite a no. of them... My dad
did quite alot of caligraphy in the past, and my mum learned some as
well, while boh me and my sis admire the beautiful handwriting...
Cravings and such... Furniture... Yeah quite a lot of them. The
porcelain collection was bountiful, and many extremely delicate pieces
of work. Really amazed at how modern looking some of the pieces were.
They can very well fit into any home deco shop of the current age. No
photo taking allowed inside, but we got a guide book and cd from the
shop. Shall try and put in some pics and describe when I'm back in sg.
Kinda troublesome to keep switching btw typing chi n eng here cos I've
got like 5 or 6 keyboards...



We went to the shilin night mkt aft that. Tried alot of local delicacies
today... We had...

蚝煎蛋 - very nice, they plonked tons of tomato sauce ontop. The flour and
egg blended together very well, resulting in a very silky like texture.

青蛙下蛋 - essentially very milky bubble tea. With super alot of pearls.
Liked the taste a lot

炸鸡扒 - very juicy, but I didn't quite like the chilli powder.. I don't
like chilli much...

猪血汤 - gosh I miss this one! Pig blood used to be sold in sg and I
absolutely adore the unique taste and texture of the blocks of blood...
It's like uber smooth, and uber silky... Had it yesterday with the 卤味 as
well.

蚝面线 - normally pronouced in hokkein so idk wat the name shd be in chi.
But a trademark Taiwanese dish, very nice.

木瓜牛奶 - very thick, and the papaya is very sweet. Natural taste of the
fruit, not artificial flavouribg or sugar. The drink is so thick that
when I suck hard enough for the drink to travel up the straw, the straw
travells upwards as well.

芒果雪片 - this dish has reached sg too, but here it's super nice! They've
added condensed milk directly into water, which is frozen into blocks of
ice that gets shaved into thin, snow like strips that melts the moment
you put it in ur mouth.

七里香 - chicken backside but boy they made it so well and nice that it
doesnt stink one bit

Ice cream with a horn shaped biscuit thing instead of a regular cone. We
got the choc n vanilla and it came with chocolate chips! also had the
炸奶油 thing which I mentioned earlier.



The only thing we got today besides food was the CDs... We went to the
cd shop and my sis got two arashi cd and two DVDs. The CDs were like
10-20 sgd a piece and DVDs cost ard 40sgd. Way way cheaper than in sg.
We saw the CDs

In HVM, costs like 40-60sgd each, and they don't sell the DVDs... Can
tell u my sis was absolutely delighted. I'm sure she would have bought
all of the arashi titles but despite how much cheaper it already is, it
still adds up to quite alot. Spent like ard 100bucks on the 4. I didn't
get anything, ain't fond of any particular singer and those songs I
like... I already have them... Why get the cd? Most of the time I only
know one or two songs in the entire cd anyway... -.-'''



Went back to the hotel thereafter. My feet really hurts. 1st the heels
started hurting, then the balls of my feet started hurting too. My sis
is worst tho. Her last two toes were blistering... Shoes ain't too
suitable for walking so much I guess, plus she's flat footed... Even now
my feet are acheing badly...



Sis tried out the DVD in the hotel already. No subs T.T, but very nice
still, got an animated flim of believe. I only watched halfway tho, went
to wash my socks aft that. We've pretty much handwashed almost all of
our clothes lol. Guess we didn't need to being that many clothes here...



I must say that I'm truely impressed by wat I've seen thus far. Many
very very friendly n helpful shop keepers... When ppl on the street
accidentally bump into you, they immediately offer an apology.. And I'm
talking abt youngsters on the street offering a very polite apology,
something u might very well NOT see in sg... And all the shop keepers
I've come across are very friendly, cheerful, happy to answer all the
qns we have... Even when we were only buying a NT20 fried cream stick -
less than $1 SGD - the vendor happily chatted with us, answered our
queries and warned us to eat the fried cream sticks in small mouths so
we don't burn our tougue.



Gng to 野柳，基隆，and 九份 tmr. Getting tired... It's past 12midnight now,
almsot 1am in fact gonna turn in, nite nite! Sad no wifi here haiz, u
guys can only read my posts way later :( really takes alot out of the
'feel' lol. Yeah, did some other stuff in btw the typing... But still
takes very long to type on my itoy. Plus I type alot, battery drained
like 2X% during my typing alone... Shows how long it takes. I wonder how
long is this post... I want a word count! Okok, really shd go slp now!



Signing off!!!

Taipei Trip - Day 1

as promised, posts of my trip to taiwan, as written during the trip itself on my iphone, but no wifi to publish the posts!

Ok, so I'm in Taipei now, aft a 7 hour plus travelling time including a 2 hour transit time at hong kong international airport. It's now 15th of June, 12:38am... But alas this post will only be sent much later as unfortunately this hotel room doesn't have wifi T.T. The hotel has like a main building and some rooms elsewhere. I believe only heir main builing has wifi :( sad, means I can't check the forums every night as I had hoped to be able to do... Or hunt my mousehunt etc... At least make sure I get the hourly trap checks but I guess getting online is gonna be hard.

So we reached changi airport at like ard 6am yesterday morning. Check in was at T1 row01... Nice number lol. Flight took off at 8.25am or so, somewhat 20mins behind schedue... CX710... This holiday we are flying all on Cathay pacific... Well the return flight from Taipei to hong kong takes us on dragonair, which is a subsidary of Cathay anyway... So we reached hk at ard 12noon... Walked ard the transit area, bought a bottle of evian water(abt the only brand they sell in the airport), some chocolates... Ate the milk choc digestive biscuits I got at marks and spencers the other day when I went orchrd with my sis as our lunch... And boarded the plane to our final destination at ard 2+pm. Short flight to Taipei, landed at 4.15pm or so... Than took a bus to our hotel. Travelled relatively light this time round, only 1 large luggage and a small hand carryable size luggage that was checked in(for 4 ppl!). The rest of the hand carry were just the bags we'd bring with us to go shopping... Guess it's is we aren't visitng somewhere in winter time... 1st time going overseas to a place that has similar weather to sg (at the time of visiting duh). Weather: 24-32degrees, rainy... NOT counting gng msia of cos...

But back to the flight... I was very pleased to find he all our flights have in fligt entertainment! Cathay ftw! Previously we travelled on some china airline that doesn't have in flight entertainment... In fact the only other time I had the small tv in front of us was went we took JAL when we went japan... The movies they show was pretty cool too, I watched "how to train ur dragon". Quite a new movie eh? :D watched an episode of GLEE on the flight to Taipei too:)

So yeah, we reached the hotel at like 6plus or so. Was taken aback by how wonderful the service staff were... YOMI hotel:) very nice service personal, good facilities and a very nice room. Double story apartment style room! With sink to wash the dishes, quite a large fridge, a tv downstairs and upstairs... Nice sofa... Really love the loft kinda apartment... Was always excited by double story houses and now I get to stay in one! Only downside is that the toilet is downstairs and so getting up in the middle of the night you'll need to climb the stairs... And staying in one room for the whole family... Sucks when my dad is snoring so freaking lousy like he is now... How am I gonna sleep later gosh???

Went to shida night market after resting some bit in the delightful room. Took the metro there, ate 臭豆腐 and 卤味 for dinner... Walked ard for a while before returning to the hotel... My sis got a jeans material shorts and my mum got a pair of jeans and a shirt...

Guess that's abt it for the 1st day:)

happiness!

sry, the taiwan trip update will come a little later but...

iOS 4 Software Update

This update contains over 100 new features, including the following:

• Multitasking support for third-party apps*
  - Multitasking user interface to quickly move between
     apps
  - Support for audio apps to play in the background
  - VoIP apps can receive and maintain calls in the
     background or when device is asleep
  - Apps can monitor location and take action while
     running in the background
  - Alerts and messages can be pushed to apps using
     push and local notifications
  - Apps can complete tasks in the background
• Folders to better organize and access apps
• Home screen Wallpaper*
• Mail improvements
  - Unified inbox to view emails from all accounts in one
     place
  - Fast inbox switching to quickly switch between
     different email accounts
  - Threaded messages to view multiple emails from the
     same conversation
  - Attachments can be opened with compatible third-
     party apps
  - Search results can now be filed or deleted
  - Option to select size of photo attachments
  - Messages in the Outbox can be edited or deleted
• Support for iBooks and iBookstore (available from the
   App Store)
• Photo and Camera improvements
  - 5x digital zoom when taking a photo**
  - Tap to focus during video recording**
  - Ability to sync Faces from iPhoto
  - Geo-tagged photos appear on a map in Photos
• Ability to create and edit playlists on device
• Calendar invitations can be sent and accepted wirelessly
   with supported CalDAV servers
• Support for MobileMe calendar sharing
• Suggestions and recent searches appear during a web
   search
• Searchable SMS/MMS messages**
• Spotlight search can be continued on web and Wikipedia
• Enhanced location privacy
  - New Location Services icon in the status bar
  - Indication of which apps have requested your location
     in the last 24 hours
  - Location Services can be toggled on or off for
     individual apps
• Automatic spellcheck
• Support for Bluetooth keyboards*
• iPod out to navigate music, podcasts and audiobooks
   through an iPod interface with compatible cars
• Support for iTunes gifting of apps
• Wireless notes syncing with IMAP-based mail accounts
• Persistent WiFi connection to receive push notifications*
• New setting for turning on/off cellular data only**
• Option to display the character count while composing
   new SMS/MMS**
• Visual Voicemail messages can be kept locally even if
   they have been deleted from the server**
• Control to lock portrait orientation*
• Audio playback controls for iPod and third-party audio
   apps*
• New languages, dictionaries and keyboards
• Accessibility enhancements*
• Bluetooth improvements
• Better data protection using the device passcode as an
   encryption key* (Requires full restore.)
• Support for third-party Mobile Device Management
   solutions
• Enables wireless distribution of enterprise applications
• Exchange Server 2010 compatibility
• Support for multiple Exchange ActiveSync accounts
• Support for Juniper Junos Pulse and Cisco AnyConnect
   SSL VPN apps (available from the App Store)
• More than 1,500 new developer APIs
• Bug fixes

Products compatible with this software update:
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• iPhone 3GS
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• iPod touch 2nd generation
• iPod touch 3rd generation (late 2009 models with 32GB
   or 64GB)

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yes i'm in seven heaven! multi-tasking! gosh! haven read all yet...!

no turning back

its been so long since i last played weiqi or even showed up at SWA. so long since i kept in touch with any of them and since i didnt use fb much till recently... haven been in touch with any new at SWA either... just looked thru pics with me tagged in them and saw the picture of this scrapbook photo album they made for yang lao shi. very cute cover page... yeah the pic was put up like in aug last year... but goes to show how little i check of my FB PLUS how out of touch i am - yes i hate to admit it but it was the 1st time i'm seeing that photo. it was... as yang lao shi's farewell present. after like decades of teaching in sg, he's decided to go back to China for good...

despite how i've given up on the game... abandoned it... how i dislike swa at times even... yang lao shi is really someone unique that i'll never ever forget. a very friendly, fatherly figure... despite the fact that i hadnt bothered to practice, hadnt bothered to improve my techniques... very warm, very nice... i'll nvr forget his face, his smile... the face of some ppl fades in my mind over time... but some will remain embedded forever... i remember his speech, his actions, gestures, stance, posture... his smile... all so very clearly as if i've just met him once more yesterday. how i used to call him every week for zhi dao qi until he knows its me the moment he picks up the phone - or maybe he just has caller id, i dont know. for some reason, i was one of his favorite students, something special... but i nvr made anything out of the time playing weiqi - i was neither strong nor lucky enough. than i got sick of the whole thing and called it quits. nothing to do with him... i wont say its entirely my fault/mistake that led to the quitting, not trying to push the responsibility, but lady luck just wasnt looking down on me during my stay... the chore of being the 'star player' in sch wore me down, i got less and less interested in improving myself, my parents pushing behind my back made things worst (same thing happened for chinese and maths, i just cant survive that way)... i gave up. towards the end i was just sleeping in every single lesson - struggled to stay awake but failed, same as i do in every lecture now, and finishing each game asap just to get away. i even skipped class with my sis who was equally sick of going for lessons. (skipped class alone too)

i knew i had to work hard to get anywhere in weiqi, but i knew that i was too uninterested to make a difference... dont quite like the wave of ex poly students taking the helm at swa... (maybe i'm just an stupid biased idiot, and a lazy one at that) but the last straw came at the lanke cup when i was in jc... 1 or 2? i cant quite remember now. by then i'd stopped playing for a long time... i went back and realised that the calm and the coolness i once had was completely gone. as much as i pretended to look cool on the outside... my heart was thumping like an idiot inside. so hard that i could really hear my heart beat. my pulse racing. literally. NEVER had i ever had that feeling before in ANY game. and it was just a small game against a noob guy and i'm feeling the heat... on top of that... my memory skills was gone, my area recognition skills gone... all gone. i used to be able to tell that a particular plot is a 7 x 3 or 5 x 6 area in a milli second glance. not anymore. and now that i've given up, nvr again. everyone says its such a waste that i've given up halfway, that i'm so good yet... so wasted... but truth is, i was nvr good. yes, in the beginner classes i 'shone' in class, but dude, that was against other fellow beginners, many of whom were much younger than me. against the other players, i was nothing. amongst the females i can still 'hold' a bit of place, but amongst the rest of the guys, i'm just average. eons away from the top HC players, or even my own jc senior like xudong.

and now... my shi fu is 'gone'... all i can say is... it'll bring a closure to the weiqi arc of my life - not a full closure, i'm certain bits and pieces of it will still resurface, but a closure nonetheless.

敬爱的杨老师，谢谢你为我们做的一确。您的教诲我会牢记在心！

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another failed attempt and doodling i guess... wanted to draw a little birdy icon but my doodles guess dont look right... i think i'll have better luck if i just take a pen and draw and snap a pic later....

blogger layout/blog skin... still... deciding what to do with this...

a new blog skin

ok... so i've gotten a new blog skin... but i'm less than happy with how the background picture ends so very abruptly and how everything is on the left side rather than centered as i prefer it... guess i gotta go read up more on css...

might try to come up with my own back ground picture... or use some other background pic from else where... but i aint very good at photoshop... okays... there's some stuff i gotta help my mum settle now... and no, i've not made any progress on the taiwan trip prep since yesterday... guess its time i do some proper work... oh shit... almost forgot... i promised my sis to go out with her tmr... her friends are taking part in some YMCA comp and my sis is helping out... and they are certainly in need of manpower and i am quite free... i absolutely would love to help out... just that i slacked the whole day and didnt do any taiwan trip research... crap.... i better get my butt moving....

luv Firefox and iPhone

ok, so as i mentioned earlier... this post will be dedicated to the iToy apps and firefox add ons that i absolutely love/adore.

1st up. why firefox (ff)?
FF runs way faster than IE, and it has really nice add ons that make my life much easier.

google chrome is good too, but i've yet to check out the add ons - in fact i plan to do so right after this post. unfortunately, too many add ons slows down the program, and too many add ons in FF will cause occasional crashes... so dont go overboard with add ons... (after my latest round of add on searching in FF, it'll crash occasionally now, previously none at all, still i cant live w/o those add ons...)

ok the 1st add on: snap links
(listed in order of usefulness/importance/reliance)

right click, drag, and it'll open up all the links in box in a new tab. or in a new window etc... u select in the options menu :)

i use this all the time. eg. there's several new threads to read in forums, i open up all the threads at the same time to read. or there's several links to check out in HS/other sites... right click, drag, done! simple, but very very important. esp if u play games like pet dogs or fluff friends etc... open tons of links at once with this add on for easier petting!

2. easy drag to go
uber useful. select a text, drag and it will do a search for you. you can drag in all 4 (top,down,left,right) directions and each direction it can perform a diff task for you (once again, u get to set!)

you can set it to open pics in a new tab, copy the link location, or even save a picture... the save a pic part is especially useful for me when doing HS updates... when i'll need to constantly save pics from extractions and upload them to HS. saves me alot of time when this add on

3. Auto Dial
saves a whole list of the pages u visited recently and displays them when u open a new tab. the downside that is you cant arrange the display order :(
nonetheless, its still very useful for me... much better than the recent pages displayed in safari or chrome, as this allows the display of... 20 or more sites??? the 8 sites or so in chrome/safari just aint enough for a user like me.

those abv, are the absolute essential ones that i use every single time i'm on the web... the rest are also very useful, but not as essential/used that frequently

colorful tabs
as the name suggests. changes the tabs so that they look very pretty, and you can see at a glance which tab is which. allows you to fade the tabs that aint selected too to make it more obvious which tab you're at.

split browser
allows you to move a tab into a side window --- top, bot, left, right, ur choice. anyplace you like. you can make the two pages scroll at the same spd even... very useful when i'm copying stuff from say south perry to HS. i can just look at the two pages side by side (w/o having to open them on seperate windows, and resize both windows.) you can resize the size of the 'side tab' webpage. the down side is that your apps like snap links dont work on the 'side tab' window. so make the window that you need to use the rest of ur add ons on to be NOT the side tabbed window. if you need those add ons (like ez drag to go, snap links) on both, guess this still aint ideal :(

but already it makes life much easier for me when i added in stuff from south perry extractions to HS. (i didnt need ez drag to go on both tabs too)

clippie
allows you to store your copied text, pretty much like the clip board in msoft. downside is that there isnt a shortcut to selecting which copied text to paste. would very much prefer it if there was a keyboard shortcut to select which text to paste, would make my work on HS much faster/easier

reload every
the one and only auto refresher for firefox. used it alot when i was playing some broswer rpg games but since i've now quit them all, i dont use this at all anymore. used to set some forum pages to auto refresh every 1min or so, so that whenever i go to the site i dont have to manually refresh to see if there's new stuff... hmm... maybe i shd do that for the warrior's hall page again...

anyway... this app sits very nicely as just a small drop down button beside the original FF refresh button. really neatly tucked away indeed. you can set the exact amt of time to wait before refreshing, and you can control each window and tab separately.

FoxClocks
i use this to check the time at various cities... sits as a neat row of times at where your status bar is(bot of the page). basically i used it quite often previously to check wat time is it at XX place where my fellow troops/other friends were... but now i refer to the times less often

ok... now for those apps that i use to keep in touch... i've come to rely on these add ons so much that they are absolutely essential now... but i felt they deserve another category of their own, plus they aint that 'work related' stuff, so their here rather than at the top of the list

scribe fire
the oldest of the 3 'keep in touch' add ons that i've got. basically its a platform that lets you sign in to all ur blogs, edit ur entries, and make new posts. w/o having to go to the website itself to sign in, create new entry... scribe fire is much more convenient... click the little icon on the bot right hand corner, and this screen pops up where u can make ur blog entry. there's a panel on the right that lets you choose which blog to post to, or choose a blog entry to bring up for editing/deleting. you can make the entry in rich editing or source editing (html)... can see a preview before you post too. very very convenient... in fact, all my entries theses days are made from scribe fire and scribe fire only. i only log in to blogger itself when i have changes to make to my blog layout/template.

TwitterBar
as the name suggests.... its a twitter tool! you type your tweet in the address bar of FF, and hit a button to just tweet away! convenient eh?

oh speaking of which, yes i've gotten myself a twitter acct. i do talk alot abt gaming stuffs there tho, so be warned... still i'll be glad if you could follow me at http://twitter.com/darkillertg

and the last FF add on that i'll talk abt...

Yoono
a very very useful tool... appears as an expandable bar on the left side of the browser... lets you sign in to sites like FB and twitter (the only two i use), and it'll inform you when ever there are updates. you can sign in the msn from there too, but i wont suggest that.. you'll get logged out of the msn live messenger program, and if you aint looking at ur FF page, (e.g. working on word) you wont know if ppl sent u a msg on msn.

but for FB and twitter wise its really great... i nvr bothered with FB updates... but with this i get to see if anyone made any updates, or sent me a msg etc... same for twitter... i'll know if anyone talked in my channel, or if those guys i'm following made any new post. you can reply right away from the add on too, very convenient. this together with the twitterbar... made me a much more regular user of twitter.

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ok, now on to iPhone apps - listed in no particular order. i'll break them into two main categories. utilities and games. basically utilities will include all the work related stuff, while games are just.. games and other fun apps :)

1st up, Utilities!

AppBox Lite/Pro
all in one... very useful, so much so that i've paid abt 1.5bucks sgd to buy the pro version. since that's the one i have now, i'll say wat's in the pro version only

currency converter!
battery status, phone memory space info
alarm clock
calculate the no. of days btw dates, no of days till XX
level - you know the carpenter tool with liquid and a bubble in the middle?
flashlight - it is really bright...
holidays info
calculate discount price (doubt i'd use this tho, mental calculation ftw!)
apparently you can download some add ons to this app too! cool!

there's a units converter too, but its a bit troublesome to use, i prefer another separate units converter app...

MultiConvert
very good units converter app. from weight to length to pressure to light intensity to... anything... everything! very user friendly too, it was very helpful when i did my biophysics on9 quizzes this sem

SG buses
lets you check which bus goes where. you can check by road name or the bus no. comes in handy at times when you are 'stranded' outside and need to know how to get hm

TouchMouse
control ur comp/lappy with ur iPhone thru wifi!!!

Remote
Control iTunes on ur comp/lappy using iPhone :)

Translators
there are quite a few translators out there... i've got quite a few of them on my phone... not sure which is better and all... ><

Dictionary
dictionary! now you can check the meaning of any word anywhere you want... if only i had this when doing my essays or comprehension in jc...

Stick it
basically a post it note pad :) i prefer this kind of 'timeless' notes to the date ordered notes as in the bulit in note pad.

UYH - Use Your Handwriting
basically you just doodle watever note you have down, not type :)

Channel News Asia/ Straits Times
Lets you read article stubs on ur itoy

Office Plus
Lets you open office (word, excel etc) documents! i've got several apps doing the same stuff, not quite sure which is better... didnt use any of them much, dont really use office files on my phone so yeah... ><

Timetable
save ur timetable on ur phone, pretty self explanatory...

Facebook
basically lets you know of any notifications/pms/wall post on FB :)
you can reply from the app, but seems like you cant delete from the app...

MeRadio
you've probably seen the advertisements... since iphone has no radio... you have an alternative... download an app to listen to the radio from the web... yes its in real time :)

PandoraBox
often apps have discounts for limited periods of times... this app keeps tracks of all the discounts and the new apps available!
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ok, that's abt it for utilities... other small stuff here and there but... let's move on to GAMES and other FUN stuff!

Backgrounds
Tons of nice background designs to choose from. you'll nvr get bored look at em

DoodleBuddy
As seen from my previous post, i really really enjoy playing on this app. the glitter effects and color add on are must gets! download some free apps for the doodlebucks!

Tap Tap Revenge 3
the ultimate game on iphone! gosh... i'm so addicted to this game that i've spent quite alot of $$$ buying tracks. extremely fun... so many song packs that i downloaded and liked... my very very most favourite one has to go the the owl city pack though. fireflies and vanilla twilight. love the song, love the blue background, love the rhythm. its perfect!

aint a person with good hand eye cooridination? no matter! i started off flanking songs in the easy mode! now i still fail at some songs in the hard mode, but very much improved already. i still panic when i see hoards of tappers coming my way but hey... this game IS fun. started off having to play with two thumbs, now i can play with three fingers, and i can play on my left hand too! really addictive game!

Tap Studio
lets you make ur own tap tap games from the songs in ur ipod!

iBubble Lite/Pro
If u like those bubble shooting game, this is it. very simple game, yet the game play format makes its so very very addictive. really. i've spent days playing this game on my itoy till i run my battery flat. a word of warning tho, this game seems the drain the itoy battery rather fast...

Solitaire
a classic game, nothing much to introduce abt it:)

Flaboo
Very fun arcade style game... u send a chicken flying thru the clouds and see how far up you can go

Fingerzilla
tap as fast as you can! very addictive too... so much so that i spent like 3 bucks to unlock more maps and the names pack...

Music Quiz/Name the Song Lite
picks songs from ur ipod, plays them for a while and gives you a list of song titles to pick from :)

WordSearch
just... word search :) good at training ur... searching spd :P

Links
its... smthing like teris... but with slightly different gameplay. i'd say the style is very interesting :)

Paper Toss
addictive... toss the paper ball into the basket! but beware the fan blowing....

iDragPaper
Drag a roll of toilet paper as fast as you can, very fun... compete among ur friends ;P

Sodoku
Just ur regular sodoku puzzles ;)

ADoodleFly
if you've played hedgehog launcher... yeah this game is quite similar to that :) cute drawings, cute upgrades... wat more can you ask for?

Charmed
something like bejeweled, but even more fun since you have to flip the phone in all sorts of directions to complete the level!

Piyo Blocks
also something like bejeweled, this game allows you to make multiple moves even before the previous combo ends. here, running out of moves wont lose the game, you only lose when you run out of time (yes, so many bejeweled like games, i'm a huge fan of bejeweled and bounce out, but since those aint free, i've to look for alternatives)

Creaturez
the third and last bejeweled like game i've got. in this game there's timed and untimed modes... either way, if you're out of moves... you out!

Quest Knight
Very fun tossing game... kinda like... heh... playing the flash game before but i've forgotten the name. you toss guys and prevent them from reaching the castle. too bad the free version has limited lvls, but still, its fun.

Lemonade Tycoon 1/2
i love the tycoon kind of games... you can play on... forever and ever!

there's also the farmville like series of games that i play... all with similar concepts... shant list them all here... i'm sure you can find them urself on the app store :P lazy and it IS getting really late...

ok... nite nite all!

loads of updates! hold your breath and get ready for a long read!

i'm going on holiday to taipei next week form 14th to the 21st. of June
yes. we only booked the hotel and tickets online yest morning at like
3am... uber last min stuff as you can see... i cant believe its thursday now already and we are flying off on monday morning gosh!

been reading bryan wong's blog for the past 2 days or so. my sis chanced upon his blog to find that its amazingly updated... yes, bryan wong the media corp artise. and yes his blog is updated! with very nice pics of his travels, shows, entries on his emotions/thoughts etc... he's set up a fb page and twitter too, but his twitter isnt very updated... anyway his fb page is at http://www.facebook.com/bbryanwong

lol, why i am so random to start promoting his blog etc you ask? well honestly i've been quite a fan of bryan and kim ng... i remember the time when they hosted shows after shows after shows together... their shows were abt all that i watched on tv... and these days with the much decreased standards of many sg tv shows... bryan's shows are just abt all that i watch on chn U/8 (well almost, occasionally there are funny, worthy shows like the ѫp show and the paris and milan show where aunty lucy made her debut... oh the noose is good too, but that's a chn 5 show). esp when there are irritating hosts like mark lee. really really dislike him, idk why he is so popular/hosts/appears in so many shows...

anyway... on tv programs... aint watching any sg made shows atm lol...
hmm, back to bryan's blog... yeah, very surprised that he keeps a blog, keeps it updated, and bothers to upload all those nice pics from his trips/shows etc... very nice entries really. i highly recommend you to go read em :) quite surprised, his english is really good actually... enjoyed reading his entries, really shows the.. human/real? side of him? very interesting experiences that he shared too... was after reading his entries that kinda motivated me to come back to post smthing on my blog :)


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ok, so the taiwan trip...

did some more research just now. perhaps half of the research is done already (or more)
tmr gotta plan out the itinerary... and finish up the research.  gotta do all the small things like freeing up the camera's memory card etc too...

dl-ed more apps onto my phone... and i've been having quite a blast on doodle buddy. esp with the new color tone thing (now i can use just abt any color under the rainbow!) and glitter brush! gosh, i love the glitter brush! it looks so good from afar/on my iPhone! heh... doodles on mine are nvr meant to be stared at/taken seriously, mind you!

okays... so the pix!


and some random crap i drew previously w/o the nice colors and glitter tool


and on mousehunt... still discovering all that long tail has to offer... but i absolutely LOVE the new trap checks that dont require entire page refreshes... the new crafting/inv and travel page... the much more convenient trap/base/cheese change on the camp page itself... gosh i <3 all the new non-page refresh changes, THEY ROCK! MUACKS MH! really wont mind donating to the game... the devs deserve the donations... however still hesitating since i'm not yet in dire need of sb+ atm, and just remember abt my FB credits which i can use for buying sb+ later on. previously wanted to buy sb+ already, but didnt know how much to donate... the more u donate at once, the cheaper it gets... but the largest amt to donate really is quite a huge sum... plus i've spent some $$$ on buying songs for Tap Tap Revenge... so yeah... see how things goes later on.

man, when i wake up later... it'll be thurs already (i know it IS thurs now already)... and we're flying off on sunday. gosh... so little time left! guess i wont have time to start up on my new training grounds thread till after i come back... gd thing is that the hotel we booked has free wireless! so i can still check up on forums when i'm in taipei... IF i'm not too tired that is. (of cos, i <3 my iPhone!!!)


currently listening to Love Story by Taylor Swift over and over on replay on the cute mp3 speaker i won (connected to my iToy, lame i know, but if u dont use stuff, they'll spoil quite fast). i <3 that song, and can listen to it hours on end...

yeah yeah, i've been copying and pasting stuff over from the other blog but well....


okays... so... exams ended... results were out, i did as badly this sem as i did last sem. exact same lousy gpa GOSH. seriously... i suck. i cant make myself motivated to study anymore. i really... feel like quitting after looking at my results. i did study. i did try. but not hard enough. nor consistent enough. and i still cant make myself stay awake, pay attention to 2 hours of lect. i just fall asleep halfway through. as usual, i say i will do better the next time round... but as usual... its not going to come through. oh gosh... someone slap me awake... someone... anyone...

so far away from my goals.
so far
1st class hons i guess has just became an impossible dream
nah, it was impossible the moment i stopped studying when i entered jc.
its like i stopped all my gears, and things nvr went right since then.
once stopped... my gears could no longer be started...

i guess there is some hope though... all that involvement in HS and other stuff... now i can happily not maple even if its 2x exp or when there's events going on... playing lesser... but it could very well merely translate to time spent on other game related stuff... or just non sch work stuffs. e.g. my training grounds guide. not that those are really bad... but not having the motivation to study...

promised to do things like read up on my chem and jap during the hols... time is slipping by and i've not done anything! next week will be gone... tho i've got an uber long hols till end of aug... but i'm intending to visit a friend in China in aug... she's from chong qing and we'll also be gng to visit the shanghai world expo! but being the lazy person that i am... i've not done anything apart from check the air ticket prices. absolutely nothing..... gah................


so in the mean time.. apart from a whole sem that flew past... and the exams... my dad got me an iPhone (aka iToy) as a bday prezzie! over 500bucks... plus an expensive plan... at 1st was reluctant to change phone... their all so ex these days... was looking for smthing similar to my old phone... candy stick type, not slide, with keypad, no touch screen... but those type were really... extinct! really couldnt find a single phone that fit the bill (esp cos i wanted SE back)

however cos the ear piece contact on my old phone was really... dying... i decided its better to take hold of the opportunity of the IT show to get a new phone... already settled on anio by sony E... took the queue number... but at the very very last min... realise that the touch screen of anio was really really sucky. cant even like unlock the phone properly... used iPhone for a while... the touch screen was uber good... and my dad kept tantalizing me with getting the iPhone... so yeah, last min decision made right at the counter - get an iPhone instead of the anio. Black - i wont have it otherwise, white is really not my color despite how my dad says white is nicer. really i think it looks better in black. my mum got a sumsung jet at the same time :)

no research, no nothing done prior to that. my sis helped did some research but it was btw anio, jet and omina... not iPhone. i didnt even know that the ear piece jet is the normal one... and the touch phone idiot that i was didnt even know how to lock the phone... nor how to take out my sim card...

but after that... gosh now i really <3 my new toy. the touch screen is fantastic! everything works really well... expect when i dropped it from like wrist height in the toilet... the one and only menu button didnt respond... like i had to press it really really hard/hold it... sometimes it just didnt respond at all... really gave a quite a big scare.... thankfully it 'recovered' after that (i dropped it at night, the next day it was working almost completely alright again)... i think the parts just went lose or smthing, but got back into place later. phew! (now the button works perfectly fine!)

i do miss the music ID feature on my old SE phone... where the phone will sample the music being played in the bg and search on the SE site for a matching song... and the bluetooth on iphone doesnt allow sending of files... well there are apps that allow for that, but mostly only btw other iphone users... :(

but apart from those two... gosh i love the phone! all the millions of apps and games! its just grand! the currency converters... unit converters... the fantastic fast speed, convenient web surfing... heh esp the web surfing... really makes my dad jealous everytime - his is a HTC touch pro 2. windows OS, so he can run xcel and stuff really just like a windows comp, screen resolution better than mine too, but the downside is that things aint as userfriendly, and the touch screen is no fight compared to itoy. case in point regarding the userfriendlyness...

itoy: there are only two buttons, pressing the top button offs the screen, AND locks the phone
htc: you have to 1st lock the phone, than press the top button to off the screen. turning the screen off DOES NOT lock the phone. you have to lock it 1st, than off. no doubt its uber irritating... so much so that ppl made programs that re-programs the top button to lock the phone directly... basically its an iPhone emulator... just that it gave the user even more functional tweaks than on the actual iphone. so now my dad happily has a iphone mimic in his pocket :P (at least the lock function and the background when the phone is locked part, yes they even mimic the clock and the slide button) oh yeah... the htc original unlock method is just touch two diff parts of the screen, making it very easy to accidentally unlock the phone and end up calling random ppl... so the iphone slide to unlock mimic solved the problem (as with the slide the answer stuff, made things more user friendly...)


yay! wang xin and sandra are both coming back in june/july <3 you troopers! gosh, how much would wx have changed!!! lol, i wonder if she still remembers she's called wx and not just Yvonne!

hmm... seems like i have a hell lotta stuff to say... i shall continue in my next post that'll be on FF add ons and iPhone apps! :D

Exams are over.... and omg...

exams are over. the papers were disgusting... maybe i'll talk abt them later or some other day... but for now... gosh. i must say this 1st.

was talking to this wonderful chap i met in maple (so hard to find nice ppl there these days) on msn. he asked me abt some sch work in the afternoon, chem and bio related stuff... and thanked me again for helping him just now (really nice). we started chatting abt sch, bio, science related stuff... i told him abt my attachments at ibn and encouraged him to go for attachments... told him abit abt the hydrogels and sent him the paper... than i went to check for the title of the 2nd paper my mentor published. the one that i saw my name hidden somewhere in the acknowledgments... than i realised there were two papers... and lo and behold... my name was in the acknowledgements on both of them gosh. such a privilege, wat an honor! a mere jc kid having her name appear on a paper. yes its just a small, insignificant name in the acknowledgments, but still... hopefully its a nice start to a great beginning >< shot, i shdnt screw up my studies like this... T.T thks to my horrendous performance last sem in which i took a hefty 24AUs, my gpa now is PATHETIC. really PATHETIC. gosh. maybe i shd go back to ibn this hols... but i got an invitation to go visit my friend in china which i do intend to take up >< and than again, this hols is probably the longest hols i'm ever gonna have... and than again, i want to go china... didnt want to go back ibn cos i've been there quite a few times. wanted to go else where but looking thru the list of institutes in astar nothing much else seemed appealing. in the end i hesitated and ending up doing nothing. now i've got plans to go china... and attachments? i really dont know. gotta rethink my holiday plans again. have yet to contact my friend in china. promised to do so tmr. maybe i'll do attachment for two months, and go china in august. nvm, i'll contact my friend 1st. i want to stay in sg during jun-jul period cos that's the stars registration period. and i've got to apply for overload this time round to cont taking jap lvl 4.

haiz...

gotta thank that friend of mine for reminding me perhaps? of those ibn attachment days. okays, i shd go and read those papers now :P

thanks alot to fan, really the best mentor anyone can wish for, and of cos, kuri the very funny and nice boss.

4 down to go!

2 more papers left, tmr morning and friday!

lalala

and you tot i'd abandoned this blog eh?

haha... almost... well maybe not.

wanted to post some stuff, but decided that some things are better kept offline...

anyway.... exams are coming already.... *gosh* my last post was abt me taking how many modules this sem. yeah. time flies, and it will only go faster as we age and our internal body clocks slows down... NOOOOOOOOOO!

1st paper: jap on thurs
26th april - bs209
28th - 207
30th - 210
5th may - 206
7th may - 208

still not sure abt wat to do during the hols. i shd have msged my mentor long ago if i want to return to ibn... but dun ask me why... i'm still hesitating....

taking on too much?

well my dad was quite surprised when i said i took 8 modules in total last sem... and this sem i have 7 core... and i still planned on taking 2 electives cos i desperately need to clear my electives... he was saying i'm taking on too much.

yeah maybe...
this sem i have 7 core, + lab, planning to take 2 electives, one of them is jap lvl 3 which WILL take me alot of time to remember all the new vocab and such...

and then i have:
HS DB mod
self imposed warrior's hall regular poster/helper? not sure what u call it
hero's lounge... thread starter (not lounge starter!)
my training grounds guide
and my latest project. HUGE project. a website of my own (still its free hosting) with:
the entire encylopedia of all the warrior related FAQs
SM guide
hero guide
aran guide
NW guide
training grounds guide
acc calculator and damage calculator (my own version)

alot of my new project stuff are not done of cos, and that's gonna take an awful lot of time... already i've pushed the new project aside for a couple of days, in favor of playing the game itself.
of yes, how can i forget my array of characters to train....

gotta... yes... gotta force myself to study during certain periods of time per week. MUST do....

...

okay ok... i decided to write some stuff here...

exams came and passed. my holiday in korea + china came and passed... -.-

i really have to think up of ways to make earning interesting to entice myself to devote more time to studying, apart from the host of games and game related stuff i do. results was a... kiss your high almighty 1st class hons dream gdbye... terrible. i can believe my dad didnt really scold me abt it. i guess we all know. i've been playing games right up to the very last min again and arghs. i hate myself for doing such things. yet when the time comes to actually mug for exams, i JUST CANT do it. man i suck! yes i do suck... even though... arghs... As was one big failure already... i'm doing it all over again. and again. and again. do i ever learn? i guess not. yes in a way i'm still freaking childish i guess. so old and still playing such childish games actively. and than spding so much X on it. arghs.............

i dont know.

i give up.

maybe i'll try typing out my own notes next year and see how things goes. at least that'll force me to actually read my lect notes more. yeah.

a million years since i blogged haha

as per title....

hmm... 1st paper down... 5 more to go. the japanese paper was still okay, felt better than i did the last sem. at least i hope i can get an A. haiz. so near yet so far. last paper on 8th dec! 2 papers tmr... haiz. hope i can do well for my other elective paper too... i think i'm pretty screwed for some of my core modules so yeah... :(

gah... i'm bored!

wanted to go maple forums... but nope... the forums are under maintenance! imma bored!!!!!!!! yesh i still have a bunch of work to do later on... part of the 102 draft needs to be edited (work split up) and emailed out by tmr, i have to find papers and read up on the causes n prevention of type 2 diabetics cos we are meeting up tmr... gah! 5 hours of break tmr but at least 1 hour will be spent on discussing the diabetic thing. the guy in my grp is like the super worried, kan choing... i dunnoe.. just find his character a bit weird. like how he suddenly come n ask me if i'm in 2nd year (like not direct entry) and know how to search for journals. yes yes i've done so much journal searching while at ibn. then the other 2 gals in my 102 grp were like, huh? year 2 means know how to search for journals arh? how arh? we dunnoe! wat's a journal anyway? proves my point that there are really a lot of ppl so far backward i dunnoe how to describe... their idea of research n all is still like the very childish, primary or secondary sch kind of idea ><

gah. dont wanna talk abt this anymore... i'll go play some games or smthing ><

yo peeps!

hello all! in sch comp lab now... biostats lesson LOL. OMG THIS MODULE IS SO SLACK!!!!!!!!!!!! I SWEAR! i just looked thru all the title of all the lects for the module... like all but 1 of the lecture is stuff not taught in jc... and considering that i really aced jc stats... i've already finished all the qns for today's lab... which plenty of time to spare to check out my gc syntax, check wiki for CLT formula and all etc... play facebook even.. hehe...

2 projects stuff on going now with an undone assignment for ACB... ok lah... nothing compared to all that 3, 4, 5, or more performance tasks at once in rg... lol. now my greatest challenge is trying to keep awake, and at the same time still be concentrating on lectures. still have yet to find a way to do so... imagine if i fall asleep half the time during that techno speak elective... where all the lesson content is in this 3 hour lecture once a week... i'll die in the exams lah ><

haiz. okays. her still gng on n on abt approximation n CLT... wonder if the use to gc to skip all the approximation, standardizing etc is accepted in exams... gotta ask the guy later on. <3 my gc ^^

tough days ahead?

been sick for the past couple of days... like fever, running nose, cough n the like.........

been totally heck care abt getting any electives... until like just an hour ago i decided to check out the stars planner thingy.. and to my amazement found this prescribed elective that doesnt clash with my core, has a title that looks interesting, and had 2 slots! OMG! so i went to search the ntu webby on details on the course. turns out that its a course abt english... technologically speaking is the course title. sounds interesting, no? smthing abt how technology changes the usage of language... even things like chat slang and all... the assessment still looks do-able. 50% ca - 2 take home assignments and a quiz. 50% final exam - mcqs and short qns.

then i went to check out on jap lvl2... which i've actually wanted to take but cldnt find a slot that fitted well with my time table... amazingly once again i found slots. picked one that's on tues n friday. the tues one is right aft my adv cell bio lect but i'm hoping the trend of that lecturer always releasing us early continues... probably gotta grab a bite before the lect n eat during the lec or smthing, in case i starve during the jap tut from 6:30-7pm... ><

not sure if i'm taking on too much. well if i slack like i did last year, i'll fluck everything no doubt, but that's the point - i dont want to waste my 4 years in uni n not get my 1st class hons. i dont wanna settle for anything less ><. yeah, a big chunk of it depends on the FYP, which u must get an A for, but if i'm not the one getting the A than who else? hell i did not waste my years rushing PTs in rg for nothing, nor did i spend my holidays at ibn doing nothing... the other day during one of the tuts 2 poly students while doing self intro said they worked at imbc n some other a-star insitute for a year before coming uni - cool stuff, but i did too had attachments at ibn for a total of over 8 months ><. yeah i was a student and they were dip holders so i believe they were lab officers/bio/watever its called in the insitute, but i did learn a lot from fan too. yeah i'm still extremely unsure n not confident if u ask me to come up with a project, design all the experiments and stuff, but compared to the rest of the students where i believe way more than half of them have had no experience watsoever... i'm definitely a lot ahead of them. thks fan!

gotta thks rgs a lot too... we were learning aseptic techniques to culture bacteria the other day... stuff we were taught in rg... >< yeah yeah, some small details like u shd always leave the agar plate inverted to prevent any condensation on the lid from falling back on the agar where not taught before, but the bulk of it? we learnt in secondary sch! they are teaching us how to write reports as a module too. yeah i appreciate them teaching us some new linguistics terms, but i've already picked up quite a bunch of scientific report writing skills... from the time we did a scientific project for RS in rg, to the srp in jc... no i'm not a fantastic writer, i'd probably be taking lit or smthing otherwise, but i really wonder how far back some of my peers can possibly be? i mean, i'm sure there are peeps who did srp also, who knows how to write reports... but if EVERYONE already knows all that stuff, why have such a course? that extra confidence boost, practise etc is always helpful, but i'm sure there are still ppl out there with no concept of report writing at all.

anways... i've missed the 1st 2 lects (bravo!) of the technologically speaking course, and the 1st 2 tuts of jap class. oh wells. the price to pay for not signing up for electives early. i must say that i'm really lucky tho, i didnt expect to get any electives this sem so late.

we have this biostats course this sem and i'm loving it! haha, stats was abt the only part of jc maths i liked anyway, and thus far i see a lot of repeat of jc stats. and the thing is, its BIOstats. basically, they know that in today's world of wonderful computer program and convinences, we dont need to bother abt the mathematical formulas and such (cos we arent taking math!!!!!!!!!!), we just need to understand the concept, and know how to use the programs... haha, my point exactly! just what i like! <3

we have a couple of projects thus far. actually, only 2 lah... not a lot. one on writing a doing a project n writing a proposal, report etc - basically its just PW all over again but with less time to complete. the other is a short presentation for tut class. my topic is on diabetics:causes n prevention. pretty cool topic, but not the coolest :( was hoping i cld get stuff like the bovine growth hormone, slimming pills n such... but oh wells. gotta think of some possible projects for the mini-pw and start searching for journals on the diabetes one tmr. both also got discussion on monday :X

gah... time to get start with work, just hope that this flu will be gone fast ><

sch's in!

1st wk of sch is over, i still have not found an elective to take. found an interesting one in psycology that doesnt clash with my timetable BUT it needs a prerequisite course which i, being a bio student, obviously didnt take. no hope in changing my mon afternoon class to a more desirable time either it seems. so i guess i'm stuck with waiting for FOUR hours on mon and FOUR hours on tues. sucks!

still hoping i can get in an elective before the add drop period ends next week. GAH!

sch's in

yup, sch has started.... met up with dear linger aft my lect n her work, had sushi again (wat else is there in ntu haha). she was really impressed with the sch buildings - cos just nice all the food place n my sch are the nice looking new buildings, the just nice they are repainting the old buildings for next yr's youth olympics, so i guess compared to nus, ntu looks so much better, haha! but seriously... ntu has a lot more new buildings than nus, and the new buildings do have quite a nice design - my sch doesnt look too bad, and the marble floorings inside does make the building look quite high class. the sch of art and design takes the cake - 2 buildings, with all glass on the exterior, in the shape of 2 slops, with grass grown ontop of the slopes. super nice looking - its been featured in the papers before...

anyways, no more slacking for me, i want my 1st class hons gpa and i cant get anyway near it if i continue slacking. i promise to read my lect notes before and revise it again aft the lect. no i've nvr mugged or memorized for any exams, and i WILL nvr do that. okays, i did study for exams still in rg, but its nothing like the way ppl mug for A lvls and such. i'm a smart person, and smart ppl dont mug and memorize stuff! we REMEMBER things haha! no more last mins work, i wanna know things inside out like the way i used it. okay, not exactly inside out, but at least i was sure of more than 80, or 90% of the course content in rg... now i step into the exam rm being sure of... less than half of wat i was taught. >< i wonder how i still get such a good gpa really =.=

okays. lect notes for tmr are still not out....... zzzzzz and tmr's lect is 1st thing in the morn so i guess there's no gonna be any notes... oh yeah, gotta try to stop falling asleep in lects too. last time i'll sleep thru half of EVERY lect. once again i wonder how i got such good grades zzzzzzzz. ok, my grades werent really that good, but i think its still abv average... at least it still starts with a 4... out of 5... either way, i'll make sure that this sem i know 100% for sure that my grades will be a lot better than average. its a promise... and promises are not meant to be broken - <3 linddy for teaching me the value of promises >< haiz... i'm not a good person when it comes to keeping promises, but i know wat i want n wat i must do to get there. well at least i know i want my 1st class hons ><

today's lect was pretty entertaining. or rather, very entertaining. as expected from dr. ken yu's lects. super duper funnieh. great thing abt it is that i dont have much trouble keeping awake ^^. bad thing abt it is... there's none! haha... i like his lects and style of teaching. a teeny weeny bit like hhx's style yeah. my laughing lect... really hope that he's taking us for all the lects, cos in the intro slide it say's he's the course coordinator and he didnt mention anyone else in the slide that's gonna be teaching us...

okays, enough time spent on blogging. i'll try to blog more often but i'm lazy. gah, i haven upload the pics we took for the outing with troopers to my com even. took me so long to upload the pics to shutterfly the other day, plus i cldnt load any webpage properly while uploading the pics >< gah... >< wat am i to do? haiz, still need to find an elective to add to my time table ><

outings!

3 outings lined up for the week!

1) sushi tea time buffet at novena with ash n mich tmr! yes, no more sakae this time! not very sure where we are gng, but i think its the one they showed on tv that time...

2) lunch with the students i meet at ibn on thurs! venue still undecided.

3) outing with my dear jlf on sat! venue n time both undecided.

hehe, jlf helping me play my nightwalker on maple... hmm... maybe i shd log on n visit my night walker later :D

life is full of surprises!

hehehe.... its been so long since i blogged or even visited my blog. sandra reopened her blog (surprise surprise!) which prompt me to take a look at mine (and hers of cos). which was when i realized that mich left a tag regarding her blog moving....

sandra's flying off again tmr :( i'll miss ya darling! <3

sch's starting on the 10th... or 11th... or august.... cos 10th shd be a hol in lieu of nat day on sunday right? anyways... yest when i check the elective module i've been assigned to aint out yet... so i'mma still waiting... haiz. next sem's timetable aint that great... 3 days starting at 8.30am. 3 days of squeezing in the crowded trains... arh wells... that' the life of a bio student i guess... unlike other courses where they can pack their time table to have free days... ours we dont have much of a choice... lects are fixed timings, tuts are more or less fixed... yeah... we only get to select which tut grp we are in.. hmps... so much so for letting us 'plan' our time table. we only get to choose our electives... but even then, u have 5 choices and its the computer that allocates which one u get into. and worst still... most of the courses have like 1000% of more ppl trying to register... and... ALOT of the modules clash with my core classes so yeah... so much so for the choices... ><

luv Sandra & JLF

still haven gone out with sandra but i swear we must meet up more than the one time we met with wx :(

and jlf is back in sg too! yay! :D <3 u all!

YIPPEE!

haha so long since i bothered to blog here...

quite a no. of stuff happened since... eg. ma got a lappy at the pc show... anyways sandra is back in sg!!!!!!! and jlf is coming back next thurs!!!!!!! YAY! double happiness!!!!!!!

been slacking all hols... surprisingly my gpa was stilll... acceptable... but i must work hard next sem if i ever want to get my 1st class hons... really... :X alrightly... nothing much else to report for now :X

an update!

hehehe, i'm forever not updating this place... anyways we went sakae with wx last week... last... erm.. okays i cant remember! but it was so fun!!!! we ate till we were so bloated and its the 1st time we cldnt finish the food... luckily they didnt charge us extra (its buffet). i think now the economy not very good lah, so if they still charge us they scared later no customers? i dunnoe... but its really wasnt our purpose to waste food okay :( we didnt leave THAT much behind either :X...

aft tt we still went ramen ten cos mich wanted to see ash's bf... then we talked n order a drink and a desert (which we cldnt finish) just cos... u cant go in a restuarant n order nothing right? then her senior n her bf gave us a free cup of drink each... and then we were so full that basically we wasted everything... and then we went home!

promised to met up again this week... ard thurs. do ash's hse n play xbox n sing karaok of west life songs... at least i think she said west life.. watever... just go her hse n play ^^

sad to say wx is gng back us b4 sandra can come back sg, unless sandra can come back earlier... otherwise... :(

TROOP OUTING!

wx is back in sg!!!! yup, current plan: outing to ramen ten/sakae sushi on thursday afternoon, meet at clementi!

wx has adopted the american accent, and has difficulties switching back! when i spoke wiht her over the phone i felt like copying her accent too.. just my natural reaction i guess, like if u keep speaking to me using the china accent chinese, i'll speak that way too... hohoho

yoz

hohoh, so long nvr blog again. went out with ash that day... erm... last thurs? for sakea buffet... super nice to eat with her again, we ate so much that my stomach was BLOATED hohoho... mich had exams so cldnt go... wx is coming back sg in 12 days time yay! cant wait to have an outing with me, ash, wx, mich and sandra again! not too sure when sandra is coming back tho, but i miss them all so much! even mich i also haven seen her for a while...

still not decided on what to do with my hols... main prob is that i dont feel like gng ibn again, and then i dunnoe which ri to go to. dont wanna do some admin job like last time in rh also. super boring... so yeah... haiz.

Exams over!

didnt do well for today's paper at all, the rxns i studied didnt come out, and i cant remember properly those that came out so yeah...

oh wells.... over is over... i dont want to dwell on such sad things.

blogskin editing in progress hohoho!

Last paper tmr!!!!!!!!!

Aft 4pm tmr i will be FREE! wahahahahaha! last paper from 1-3.30pm. 10 qns choose 9 leh! the longest paper thus far, NO MCQs!!!! a lot of things to remember also lah! need to remember all the biochemical pathways, the structure, the enzyme name or accroymes etc etc! the hardest paper to study for... hey i started studying last night already okays, one whole day more compared to the other papers liao loh. the res ti start studying the night before only (and really late at night)

okies. back to studying le

last and worst paper yet to come

today's paper was ok on the average. it not that i dont know how to do the qns, but rather, cos even tho its just 50 mcqs, like i guessed, there can be multiple choices per qn. if you miss out a correct choice, or shaded an extra choice, no marks. that's what worries me as i'm not sure if i missed out any right choices :S

oh wells. not much i can do abt it now... i did the paper quite fast actually. like 1h30mins finish checking all the qns. didnt make much changes after that, but i still stayed the full 2.5hours of the paper... just didnt want to leave early, even tho bu thte end of the paper, less than 25% of the ppl from my course was left. LOL. everyone cant tahan the waiting time liaos. all chao liao. this is my best sub! so i really hope i did well! was so bored that in the end i was drawing on my graphic calculator. haiz.

at the beginning it was quite ez. i was taking abt 1 min per qn. was at qn 15++ or 20++ i cant remember, there was this qn abt calculating how much the dna would weigh. i was having a bit of a mental block, kinda stuck there, then the lecturer (also took my tut grp, and his our only lecturer for the course, all the qns set by him) walk over to my row. he recognises me (and i liked his tuts) cos his tuts are more of a discussion kind and since nobody spoke up in his class, i started speaking up and answering his qns, soon he was calling me up to the baord to draw stuff... of cos another of my friend (sitting at the other side of the class) joined in regularly later on, which was great cos i NVR EVER did any of my tuts before hand. normally i just read thru the lect notes before the tut and look at the qns. (yet i can still answer his qns during tut! tho not always). so its great to have someone else for him to stare at and extract the ans out from LOL. anyways, the point here is that he recognises me, and would most likely assume that i shd do well in the paper. so anyways i was stuck at the stupd math problem (which i later sloved) and any pressing and whacking nos. on my graphic calculator. and he walks over, looks down at me (the table is short, n he is a tall ang moh guy, and i'm not tall either) and stared for a while, then said, is it that hard? (or smthing like that) and then walked off. i was like thinking... wat the.... wat's that supposed to mean? hey i'll figure this qn out later on okies! its just that i'm having a bit of mental block. and then i looked at my watch. its was just ard 20mins into the paper? i did the qns at like 1min per qn only! that's still not fast enough for you??? somemore its a 2.5hour paper for 50mcq qns... what's the rush? LOL i really have no idea what his comment was supposed to mean :X... lol... oh wells... and that was my interesting encounter for the day. hahas... nothing much else to report le. tata!

haiz

today's paper was quite hard. got one part of the qn i dunnoe how do at all. 6marks gone!!!!!!!!!!!! then another whole qn i think i get zero marks liao le. total 18 marks fly liao. then some mcqs were super hard n i dunnoe a no. of them.... all i can hope is that a lot of ppl found the paper hard too and so marks would be moderated up. but i think the paper was harder, since there were much few ppl leaving early this time. in fact i didnt notice anyone leaving till quite late into the paper. like much much later compared to the previous papers.

i really have no idea how wedn papers will be... 2.5hours paper, mcqs exclusively. he didnt tell us got how many qns, niether did he say if its the you can choose more than 1 ans type. today's paper the mcq test super a lot of nitty gritty details that i didnt (as did many ppl) bother to remember. i have absolutely no idea how wedn's paper will be like, cos that sub also dont have so much nitty gritty details to test in the 1st place. and the lecturer said that this yr's paper will be harder than the previous years!!!!! so how is he gonna make it hard is really smthing that i cant figure out. the good thing is that that sub has much less stuff to memorise. most of it is concept based and during the tuts and such i didnt find the concepts hard to understand. really hope that i can do better on wedn. i believe i cant even get an A for today's paper liao... and i was hoping to get all As... haiz. and then my parents are gonna scold me for not studying again. but then i didnt have any motivation to study lehs! NONE. sit in front of comp do nothing. stare at lt notes blanky. force myself off maple then i go play smthing else... so sian lah. at least i still studied more in rg even tho i played super a lot too. haiz. i really hope my gpa this time is good okies. last sem my gpa missed the 1st class honors scored by like 0.1 or less. although you stil need to get an A in the fyp to get 1st class honors, but there's the gpa requirement too... arghs... totally screwed up BIG time today! and my jap wasnt that good too... ARGHS i didnt do well for econs last sem also! dammit all my electives are screwing up my gpa! and i didnt do perfect for my core modules too so my gpa is so screwed!!!!! granted i believe its still much better than a lot of ppl but that's their problem, i have my own standard (yet i dont work to get there, how ironic) ARGHS i suck :(

luckily wedn's sub only had 10 lectures, and all the tuts are written on the back of the lect notes, much lesser things to study but argh the greatest headache comes with 106. biochem which has quite some phy part in the beginning, at least enough to remind me of how my 102 was like th worst sub out of eveything last sem (and the beginning of 106 is quite like 102) and then at the back there's so many chemical formulas, eqns, pathways, enzyme names to remember i dont think i'll be able to finish remember them all. arghs... i think 107 shd be my best paper this sem, if i dont do well on wedn i'm dead!

2nd round!

2nd round of exams starting tmr...! yet i still slacked the whole wkend... aft go jc i cant find the mood to study liaos... last sem quite lucky, gpa can consider quite gd (but not gd enough to me) but then this sem dunnoe if so lucky or not... and yet i still slack so much... someone motivate me to study pls :(
but then.. somehow bio comes rather naturally to me, as long as there's not too much details or chem in it. but of cos i'm only in yr 1, i believe things shd get much harder later on. i hope it would actually. else what's the point of going uni right? its to challenge urself de mah. okies. go study liaos

will change the blog skin of this blog n my maple blog when aft exams, i promise XD

to all my maple friends reading this blog, can go here and take a look if you wish ^^

2 down, 3 to go

2 papers down, next one on monday.

jap was rather hard, i keep mixing up my hiragana n katakana.... plus i didnt really go study all the name esp the katakana names... so i have no idea how well i'll do. esp since 30% of it is on the orals and normal time work, and i didnt do very well in normal time work...

108 felt better than jap. at the bulk of the mcqs were easy.... not sure how well i'll do either once again.

109 and 107 coming up next. 107 is all mcqs sia... cool! no need study much liaos? wonder how many mcqs there will be... 2.5hours paper somemore leh! i bet a lot of ppl will leave aft super early once they finish. the jap and 108 paper quite a lot of ppl leave early lah. esp the jap paper. the guy sitting on my right finished like in 1 hour or less... then he sat ard for a while, flipping thru the paper then finally decided to leave. wah! so fast lah! i was still struggling to remember how to wat all the letters! sighzzzzzzzzzz

exam time again

jap exam tmr and 108 on wedn.

parents back from china liao, ma bought a STACK of bag from china, seriously, so many bags that its enough to form a pile/stack... bought this li ning back pack which i really like - its small lah, not for bringing to sch on days when u have a lot of lessons, but it looks super nice :D can br when go shopping etc.

yest i was standing ard in my sis room and watching antm on her laptop with her when suddenly i felt some strange thing underneath my big toe... i was half stepping on the ladder of her double deck bed and kept moving my other feet ard when i suddenly felt this weird feeling thing... i looked down to see myself stepping on an overturned croachroach ... i was kinda shock to see a croachroach in the room, puzzled as to my it was OVERTURNED tho. the croachroach was like half alive, wriggling abt and missing half a leg. somehow after this 69kg giant half stepped on it, its not dead yet... i guess i didnt put my entire weight onto that foot bah, cos once i felt that weird thing i looked down and jump away. my sis was laughing so hard throughout the whole incident and while disposing the half dead roach that her whole face turn RED. like really RED.

hope that was the roach the fell on my hands from the door of the bathroom the other night, cos i didnt kill THAT roach... else it'll mean there are more roaches in da hse :S hey come on, our house is clean ok! we dont have crumbs lying all over or anything like dat! i vacumed the floor! strange... i hardly see roaches in the house and last week i saw 2 already. gah. time to study 108...

had orals today, was uper nervous, but i finished quite fast and didnt had to ask her to repeat. my friends say 3mins done. thing is that... i think i made some sentence structure mistakes :S and then she ask me for the date of the day aft tmr and i was stuck for a while on how to say the 10th of the month..... :S

no more sch this sem. next week exams start already. jap 1st followed by 108. yucks

here's the korroke yinster cooked yesterday. mash potatoe with minced pork and chopped onions and bread crumbs on top, then deep fried.

jap listening today was hard. they read super fast and trick ppl somemore. like got a qn ask where that person go on sunday. that person said out of list of things, only to say that its wrong and that was wat she did on sat... and sunday she did smthing else! super tricky ok! and only say once OMG! then alll the large large numbers i couldnt catch lah... i'll be lucky to get 50% for this listening man.... orals tmr... wah....

okies, time to do lab reports...............

TIRED

oh man i'm so tired today. cooked dinner with my sis just now and she just had to try out this dish that took us super long to make. zzzzzzzzz

jap listening tmr.... sighz. need go study. and the set of 109 lab reports are due on thurs, but since i'm not going back to sch on thurs, i'll have to hand them in on wedn and i got jap orals on wedn too. whee....

kk, time to go wash the dishes and keep the left overs in the fridge... and then go hang up the clothers then go start the car so that the battery wont run out.....

ya i know my blog super ugly n in need of a facelift. but i'm lazy to make one... maybe i shall hunt for a chem/bio theme one next time... i'm sure someone would have made a bio/chem themed blogskin somewhere right?

sighz. so many of my friends are overseas, and so many blogs (in the sidelink) abandoned or close...

today's lab was super simple and super short. we wasted a lot of time tho else cld have finished in less than the 1.5hours we took. identify the diff stages of mitosis of teh onion root tip.... -.- same slide as the one i saw in rg. lol. the looking at yeast mutants - that was more interesting. and i actually had a bit of trouble focusing the microscope (1st time ever!) cos there was so many bubbles (didnt put coverslide properly :S) and quite a lot of dust on the slide/microscope/ i dunnoe wat. but still, i managed to see the cells very nicely. ha, i pride myself in being able to use the microscope well ks :)

abt time to slp...

happiness!

lalala. here comes the procrasinator (spelling?).
super happy today, thanks linddy :)

on another note, exams are coming yet again, and ma is gng china for a short holiday with my dad so i'll have to wash the clothes irons the clothes, make breakfast lunch dinner for my sis n myself starting friday! FRIDAY! so fast sia. i haven even learn to use the washing machine yet -.-
yah, i'm not a very helpful person in the house i know. normally my job scope is just wash the dishes aft dinner and sometimes help vacumn (after ma yell at me 10 times) the living room/other rooms besides my own.

japanese oral n listening next week! so fast sia! a bit scary leh... the oral will be RECORDED somemore!!!!!!! for wat reasons i have no idea...
also our 107 lecturer just told us that the exams for that sub will consist of MCQs ONLY, EXCLUSIVELY. i dunnoe whether to jump for joy or be scared. he say it'll be harder than the previous years somemore. MCQs means no need to memorise anything. just have the concept enough le, BUT MCQs means its gonna be super tricky, and i'm quite careless at times... :S

apart from that nothing much happening in RL. lots of stuff in the virtual world but i've decided to keep this blog out of those...

RAWRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ntu open house

went out with my darling junior to ntu open hse yest. me, yin, sw and her friend, showed them ard ntu library, the food court, ard my sch lobby, the classrooms... at 1st wanted to go nus with her today and meet with wanling too, but after yesterday i was so tired... :P shall print out all my lect notes nicely and not wait till the lsat min like usual.

exams on the 14,15,20,22,28 or april (or smthing like that) 1 month left only omg! time flies too fast, esp when u are having fun and slacking ard. its like the term time is way too short! this time cant afford to study an average of 2 hours for each sub anymore. stuff like metabolism got quite some bit to remember. have to remember all the reactants and enzymes for stuff like calvins cycle and so on, and a lot of formulas too. bleh. cant slack so much already...

pa gng china for his work stuff on 22nd march i think? and ma will join him for 1 week at the end too. not sure what time she gng (or rather, i forgot) but they coming back on the 12th or 13th, like JUST before my exams :P

poor yin tho, she need to wake up EARLY for sch. luckily she found out that she can wake up with her hp, else... i dunnoe... hey i'm NOT gnna wake up at 5+ to wake her up! :P so bad rite...?

oh wells, that's all i have to say. for now.

long time no see!

OMG! just realised my last entry was LAST year! Gosh! didnt realise i've been neglecting my blog for so long!

several things happened since the last time i blogged...
1) sch reopened
2) my laptop graphic card got burnt (thk god its still under warrenty) and it was in hospital for a week ++ waiting for the new stock of graphic cards to arrive
3) had a mid term 1 week break
4) break ended and sch reopened (again) yesterday
and oh 5) yesterday some indonesian chinese from ntu, sch of triple E, a 4th year student, went crazy, stabbed his professor, slit his wrist, and jumped down 5 storeys to his death...

okies. and now no. 6) i have a quiz tmr, and japanese lessons in an hour so i ought to go buy some food now so i wont be flipping thru my TB looking for how to say hungry in japanese later on... :S :P

Some songs

Some nice songs, done maple story style :)

[MMV]Truly, Madly, Deeply, - Cascada

MMV: Miracle

MMV: Famous Last Words

MMV - My Love

MMV - I don't wanna be in love

Toybox- Best Friends mmv

Toybox- Best Friends mmv

MMV : Boom Boom Boom Boom

new year is coming

back from holiday in china! photos coming up when i'm not feeling lazy. lol.

sch timetable n results still not out et... grrrrr.... its getting me on the edge not knowing how well (or badly) i've done...

new favourite song of mine. found it when browsing videos on you tube.

"Everytime We Touch"
Artist: Cascada

I still hear your voice, when you sleep next to me.
I still feel your touch in my dreams.
Forgive me my weakness, but I don't know why
Without you it's hard to survive.

'Cause everytime we touch, I get this feeling.
And everytime we kiss I swear I could fly.
Can't you feel my heart beat fast, I want this to last.
Need you by my side.
'Cause everytime we touch, I feel the static.
And everytime we kiss, I reach for the sky.
Can't you hear my heart beat so...
I can't let you go.
Want you in my life.

Your arms are my castle, your heart is my sky.
They wipe away tears that I cry.
The good and the bad times, we've been through them all.
You make me rise when I fall.

'Cause everytime we touch, I get this feeling.
And everytime we kiss I swear I could fly.
Can't you feel my heart beat fast, I want this to last.
Need you by my side.
'Cause everytime we touch, I feel the static.
And everytime we kiss, I reach for the sky.
Can't you hear my heart beat so...
I can't let you go.
Want you in my life.

'Cause everytime we touch, I get this feeling.
And everytime we kiss I swear I could fly.
Can't you feel my heart beat fast, I want this to last.
Need you by my side.

Original version:

Maple MMV: "Everytime We Touch"


Remix:

MMV - Everytime We Touch

hmmm

did i say that exams are over? yes exams are over long ago and wedn is the day to pick our next sem's timetable.

i decided on taking jap 1 and some psycology course for my electives. 2 electives this time round. hope i wont be so bored.

off to shanghai, nanjing n suzhou on sunday... sighz. its supposed to be a holiday, but i aint quite looking forward to it. sighz.

troop outing again!

lol, i meant to blog abt it right after we go out, but as usual i forgot. -.-'''

so the troopers went out last thursday, me ash sandra mich n joy to suntec swensens for dinner :) it was really fun catching up and gossiping on ms nair's bf LOL then we went to sit ard the fountain of weath n watch the laser lights display with loud loud music n ppl walking ard the fountains in the middle (after the laser light display ended) for *weath*. lol ash says it looks like some cult activity LOL. suntec city cult! with people walking ard the fountain religously. the laser light display i found it rather normal, but i like the ending part where they light up the whole fountain in pink/blue/watever colour u have, and there's lights on the floor showing yellow. i thought that effect was great, too bad i forgot to br my cam. took a picture with my hp though.

maybe i shd make a seperate blog for putting all the random pictures i took. next time i guess, and if i have enough pics. ;)

*Gasp* Its an Update!!!

haha! an update!

the story thus far...:

its the exams period now. 3 papers down n two more to go. 1st up was intro bio n econs, both of which were doable. then was org chem yest. arghs stupid me made like 3 or 4 careless mistakes already and cos the huge slacker didnt study the reactions properly she couldnt do parts of the synthesis qns. synthesis as in like... making of chemicals.

sound new songs i got addicted to:
(new as in, not new out in the market, but songs i just discovered, i.e. new to me)

Pictures of You
by The Last Goodnight
Album: Poison Kiss

This is the clock up on the wall
This is the story of us all
This is the first sound of a newborn child,
Before he starts to crawl

This is the war that’s never won
This is a soldier and his gun
This is the mother waiting by the phone,
Praying for her son


(Chorus)
Pictures of you, pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see
Pictures of you, pictures of me
Remind us all of what we used to be


There is a drug that cures it all
Blocked by the governmental wall
We are the scientists inside the lab,
Just waiting for the call


This earthquake weather has got me shaking inside
I'm high up and dry


Pictures of you, pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see
Pictures of you, pictures of me
Remind us all of what we used to be


Confess to me, every secret moment
Every stolen promise you believed
Confess to me, all that lies between us
All that lies between you and me


We are the boxers in the ring
We are the bells that never sing
There is a title we can't win no matter
How hard we might swing


Pictures of you, pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see
Pictures of you, pictures of me
Remind us all of what we used to be


Pictures of you, pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see
Pictures of you, pictures of me
Remind us all of what we could have been






Shadow Of The Day
By Linkin Park

I close both locks below the window
I close both blinds and turn away
Sometimes solutions aren't so simple
Sometimes good bye's the only way


[Chorus]
And the sun will set for you
The sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you
[End Chorus]



In cards and flowers on your window
Your friends all plead for you to stay
Sometimes beginnings aren't so simple
Sometimes good bye's the only way
[Chorus]

And the sun will set for you
The sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you

And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you



And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you
[End Chorus]



Both songs are rather slow, which is kinda contary to what usually go for. well pictures of you is not that slow lah, but shadow of the day is a really really slow song, and soft at the beginning too. esp slow n soft at the beginning. i downloaded the song long ago but never got past the 1st 20 seconds of the song. it was only the other day they were playing it in sch i think (playing the the canteen, got no choice cant change song) that i actually listened to the entire song. went back home and randomly played some songs when i was bored and kinda forced myself to listen to the entire song, and surprisingly realised that the music got louder and kinda darker as the time passed. pictures of you is the song that is currently stuck in my head and refusing to leave tho. chanced upon it while randomly playing all the songs in my comp. my sis downloaded it but i never listened to the song before till abt a week ago. lol. both songs are like uber outdated now i bet, but who cares? i dont like listening to the radio for new songs, ever since that time i spent like 2-3 hours listening for any songs that sounds nice and didnt find ANY. lol.

(i shd paragraph all my text better, makes things easier to read doesnt it?)

speaking of songs, some CDs they are advertising for on TV has some nice songs i know, esp this CD with all the oldies (the one with carpenters on top of the world). next time i go to the bookshop i gotta checkout the song titles on the CD. also, anyone knows what's the music for the Central (the shopping center) advert? i like that song/music! lol. hmm shd go google it, i'm sure someone would have asked it somehwere...

ok, i shd sleep soon. the cough syrup i took is making me drowzy.